he and paul ryan are urging supporters to donate. >> swing by, give a hand. >> make sure we do our very best to help those that are being impacted by the storm. >> anything he says injects pure politics into it. and so you want to be careful if you're the romney team to keep an eye on it, obviously. but don't necessarily try to get in front of the story in any way. >> reporter: one week before the election, polls are tied, but campaigning at a standstill. >> i am not worried at this point about the impact on the election, i'm worried about the impact on families. >> reporter: families also impacted by jobs, and the labor department telling us the jobs report that's supposed to come out friday, the last one before the election, should be on time. they have had people at homeworking on crunching the numbers while the federal government was closed. >> all right, tracie potts from washington, d.c. thank you very much for the update. >>> in the mean time as so many east coast, christina loren is keeping an eye on it. >> it was a category 1 storm when it came onshore. right now it's still a s